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they came in the numbers, into new york, philadelphia, boston and so on and albany. albany had so many irish but they couldn't handle it and they closed our borders and would not let any more people come into the city. eventually the irish became dominant in the 19th century and numbers. in 1875 cents, i think it showed that one in six albanians were born in ireland. posted to politics, albany was always a political city, even in a dutch colonization, it was a rebellious city. and the time of the english, lakeway three had the revolution, plotters, schemers from the drafters the constitution gathering in albany, planning the union. and so it went through the years. one of the great politicians of all time in this state in this country was the mayor of albany. he had uninterrupted success from the time he was elected in 1942 until he died in the hospital of emphysema in 1983. 11 terms uninterrupted. that's the longest running mayor of any city in the united state. he was very proud of that achievement. he was part of this fantastic political machine, which took power
they came in the numbers, into new york, philadelphia, boston and so on and albany. albany had so many irish but they couldn't handle it and they closed our borders and would not let any more people come into the city. eventually the irish became dominant in the 19th century and numbers. in 1875 cents, i think it showed that one in six albanians were born in ireland. posted to politics, albany was always a political city, even in a dutch colonization, it was a rebellious city. and the time of...
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the week before last the internet in new york ran on diesel. it was just as simple as that. they all have these backup generators. when you visit one of these big internet buildings, there's always the point in the tour when you come to the school bus, this kind of hot, still room filled with an enormous, you know, perhaps four megawatt diesel generator. and last week in the case of 60 hudson, in the case of 111 ace avenue, a building that's actually owned entirely by google, in both those cases the generators did successfully switch over, and the internet was running on diesel. there were a couple stories of data centers in manhattan that did not success friday switch over -- successfully switch over. in one prominent example, a data center that brought down a lot of web sites, a lot of well known web sites, the fuel pump was in the basement. and if the fuel perform is in the basement and the basement's flooded, you can attempt to have a bucket brigade of diesel fuel up the stairs, but that's a tough thing to do with the scale of power these buildings need. >> host: how rel
the week before last the internet in new york ran on diesel. it was just as simple as that. they all have these backup generators. when you visit one of these big internet buildings, there's always the point in the tour when you come to the school bus, this kind of hot, still room filled with an enormous, you know, perhaps four megawatt diesel generator. and last week in the case of 60 hudson, in the case of 111 ace avenue, a building that's actually owned entirely by google, in both those...
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york island. my sons will make their own memories on this blessed patch of earth. one day, they will realize just what it means that this land is their land, and that they share with 310 million others. when my son was a baby and woke up crying in the middle of the night, i would walk up and down her hallway singing this song. it was a long time since i last sing it, maybe fifth grade, but the words came back easy, like they were written in me. they are at the christmas pageant with my kids and my countrymen, i am bursting with pride and love. this is the american -- a declaration of faith to our nation. and to each other. [applause] .. >> so one of the things said before he vanished into thin air that day was don't focus on just the ugliness that's coming out around muslims. and this was a really ugly time. there were shots fired, shots allegedly fired outside of a mosque in buffalo, a muslim cab driver was asked if he was muslim and was stabbed four times in response. there were mosques being op
york island. my sons will make their own memories on this blessed patch of earth. one day, they will realize just what it means that this land is their land, and that they share with 310 million others. when my son was a baby and woke up crying in the middle of the night, i would walk up and down her hallway singing this song. it was a long time since i last sing it, maybe fifth grade, but the words came back easy, like they were written in me. they are at the christmas pageant with my kids and...
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might be the network of the law firm that perhaps bands from new york to los angeles or a network like facebook or google but what is striking and to understand the way it manifests itself physically is that networks carry networks. you might have a global background company like a level level 3 that owns the strand of glass and owns the conduits like railroad tracks across the country. you might have another company perhaps midsize network services company like electric that might eliminate those strands of glass. they might own the light and and of many might have another company that might be a goldman sachs or large law firm that buys bandwidth on that glass. so we often talk about the information superhighway as if the network itself is a highway. i like to think of it more as the network, given network is a car chugging along the highway side-by-side with other networks because there is definitely a layering going on that's crucial to understanding the way in which the networks of the internet operate individually ,-com,-com ma on a global basis but then of course how they interc
might be the network of the law firm that perhaps bands from new york to los angeles or a network like facebook or google but what is striking and to understand the way it manifests itself physically is that networks carry networks. you might have a global background company like a level level 3 that owns the strand of glass and owns the conduits like railroad tracks across the country. you might have another company perhaps midsize network services company like electric that might eliminate...
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she was the largest individual lender to the new york city government. she lived in the gilded age when society lived lavishly but she rebelled the opulence. she loved her children and friends, lived a simple life. she was caring of those who befriended her and she would show great affection and would say because he does not know how rich i am. living her life as she deemed best to have a career and a mother to her clever investing she showed that women were the equal of any man with newspapers around the world they claimed her the queen up on wall street. and she was "the richest woman in america". there are a lot of sayings of her words of wisdom. she did have a good sense of humor. if you have any questions i would love to answer. >> do you have evidence. >> know. that they should have the right to vote. i found usually successful women like gertrude bell did not believe of women's suffrage, margaret thatcher did not, in zero gandhi they want to make their way in a man's world. >> eight to generalize there is a glass ceiling. when you get into the sit
she was the largest individual lender to the new york city government. she lived in the gilded age when society lived lavishly but she rebelled the opulence. she loved her children and friends, lived a simple life. she was caring of those who befriended her and she would show great affection and would say because he does not know how rich i am. living her life as she deemed best to have a career and a mother to her clever investing she showed that women were the equal of any man with newspapers...
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michael bloomberg a great example, he is banning the cuts in new york city. so that and we are talking about, that ideology on the left, the progressive ideology. swatter some of the mifsud are commonly held by today's progress of squawks i've got about five myths that we tend to focus on the first to because those are the big juicy ideas and the bad ideas one is the natural things are good and number two, on the natural things are bad. number three, unchecked science will destroy us. number four, science is only relative any way, and number five, science is on our side. okay. the first one we learn all about them there. we are going to talk mostly about the most famous progressive today, president barack obama and his resume when it comes to science, but just to give you an idea about why these are important, natural things are good. that's behind the organic food movement. the rejection of the organic the modified to. unnatural things are bad. that is the fear of chemical and bpa, the fear of chemistry and the things that are unnatural and pesticides, ferti
michael bloomberg a great example, he is banning the cuts in new york city. so that and we are talking about, that ideology on the left, the progressive ideology. swatter some of the mifsud are commonly held by today's progress of squawks i've got about five myths that we tend to focus on the first to because those are the big juicy ideas and the bad ideas one is the natural things are good and number two, on the natural things are bad. number three, unchecked science will destroy us. number...
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york and throughout new england. and after about ten years of that peripatetic lifestyle, i decided i wanted to go to the other side of the counter and sell books. and so i went to work for the bookstore here in this plaza, and i eventually bought into the business and then bought the business out. and so i have been here since, as sole owner since 1991. and it's been an up and down history since then. shortly after i purchased the store, um, with a small business administration loan, it was barnes & noble and borders moved in, and literally the literary landscape of albany, new york, changed overnight as it did across the country. because that expansion into the area of the chains took about 11 other independent bookstores out of business. but the book house was left standing. and through the '90s it was really a tough, competitive battle for our market share in this town, but we survived. part of the reason we survived was that the community came to our rescue. they said we don't want you to go away, we want you to
york and throughout new england. and after about ten years of that peripatetic lifestyle, i decided i wanted to go to the other side of the counter and sell books. and so i went to work for the bookstore here in this plaza, and i eventually bought into the business and then bought the business out. and so i have been here since, as sole owner since 1991. and it's been an up and down history since then. shortly after i purchased the store, um, with a small business administration loan, it was...
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new york, new jersey, and portions of pennsylvania. the author recalls the importance of the region during the war and visits several sites to document their historical significance and it plans date today. from washington's crossing of the dollar to the battle of brooklyn, it is about an hour and 15. [applause] >> this subtitle of this book is old irishman. it is a great honor to introduce the author and my friend, robert sullivan. i have known to geniuses in my life. one is dead, and the other, robert sullivan, is alive. although that reversal in is not the robber solomon he was receiving. not exactly, but more but then the moment. first, brazil and is the author of seven extra hour bucks. meadowlands, will hunt, how not to get rich, rats, cross-country , the throw you don't know, and the one that brings us here, my american revolution. in mine and humble opinion each of these books is its own line and masterpiece. wonderfully idiosyncratic, uniquely incisive. each is an investigation of the american my state and song skate into rela
new york, new jersey, and portions of pennsylvania. the author recalls the importance of the region during the war and visits several sites to document their historical significance and it plans date today. from washington's crossing of the dollar to the battle of brooklyn, it is about an hour and 15. [applause] >> this subtitle of this book is old irishman. it is a great honor to introduce the author and my friend, robert sullivan. i have known to geniuses in my life. one is dead, and...
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she was attending vassar in poughkeepsie, new york. lizzie easeleddest, will, 17, was about to close out his high school years at the prestigious seminary in nearby hampton, massachusetts. graduation was just a few weeks away; that is, if he could make it without being expelled. will was charming, handsome, and much to his parents' dismay, completely ambivalent about his education. even so, skinner hoped he would go on to yale next year. also enrolled in the boarding school was libby, 14, who was attending the grove hall school for girls in new haven, connecticut, but her school year had just ended, and she was back home begun. joe, 11 and belle, 8, were each eager for summer break. getting ready for the summer games, joe had bought a baseball bat the previous weekend, and the very youngest, katherine, only six months old, had recently made her first appearance in public with the world delighting in her just as much as she in it. skinner's train pulled in, the departing passengers gathered their hats and bags, replaced by a throng of n
she was attending vassar in poughkeepsie, new york. lizzie easeleddest, will, 17, was about to close out his high school years at the prestigious seminary in nearby hampton, massachusetts. graduation was just a few weeks away; that is, if he could make it without being expelled. will was charming, handsome, and much to his parents' dismay, completely ambivalent about his education. even so, skinner hoped he would go on to yale next year. also enrolled in the boarding school was libby, 14, who...
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"new york times" that places the corruption at $2 billion to $3 billion. >> so you don't approve? >> i wouldn't vote for him, no. [laughter] >> this, of course, has been the struggle and the tragedy of pakistan over a long period of time that when something like democratic elections occur, the sighfullian leaderships that take office fail the mandate that brought them there, and they often fail in space that's pinched and constrained by the military and the intelligent purposes. we were talking before we came out that the army's out putting tv ads up bragging about the performance in the flood as if it's something they -- out of the ordinary that an army would do. >> yes. >> so are we in a phase that's going to feel repetitious? lead to another military intervention? is there an alternative future in your estimation? >> well, you know, there's a nightmare merry-go-round you see in pakistani poll sick -- politics. heafter he was made president -- we don't call them elections, we call them selections. the same selections that brought him to the presidency were the same way in which
"new york times" that places the corruption at $2 billion to $3 billion. >> so you don't approve? >> i wouldn't vote for him, no. [laughter] >> this, of course, has been the struggle and the tragedy of pakistan over a long period of time that when something like democratic elections occur, the sighfullian leaderships that take office fail the mandate that brought them there, and they often fail in space that's pinched and constrained by the military and the...
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the first answer to your question is stop reading the new york times. [laughter] much more than it used 210 or even -- >> my commentary. >> there is a sort of classic effort to say what is important and what is unimportant in accordance with an ideological schemes. you know, i don't think there's an answer to this, and it's very hard to get people to jump out of that sort of in the case of the times to liberal left, the view of the world. except over a long amount of time by pointing out to cognitive dissidence and disrupted -- discrepancies. i guess it's easier now in the sense that the state department, i remember work stopped at 630 to watch cronkite and broke off. their interpretation of the news was critical for the u.s. government. likewise, time and newsweek. i mean, you now have -- pardon me. you now have many more news broadcasts and we have the internet. so if we could just get rid of the new york times, the problem would be about 25 percent salt. i actually am serious about that because of its influence on media elites throughout the country
the first answer to your question is stop reading the new york times. [laughter] much more than it used 210 or even -- >> my commentary. >> there is a sort of classic effort to say what is important and what is unimportant in accordance with an ideological schemes. you know, i don't think there's an answer to this, and it's very hard to get people to jump out of that sort of in the case of the times to liberal left, the view of the world. except over a long amount of time by...
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>> you mentioned that the boston tea party spread south to new york and to other cities. almost sounds as though were the network of people who were having the same thought or inspired one way or the another or working together. i never thought of the boston tea party as being that, but is that really -- >> yes. sam adams set up because there was no other form of communication, set up a series of committees of correspondence in every major city in the country. they started communicating with each other, and that's how word was passed. that's how we eventually decided on a continue thenal congress for all the committee members to meet in philadelphia and discuss independence. >> was tea party in new jersey -- was that before -- >> sorry, i can't hear you. >> the tea party in new jersey, wasn't that -- didn't that happen before the boston tea party? >> which tea party? >> the one in new jersey. >> no, afterwards. >> afterwards? >> yeah. that was another tea party. they dumped a ship in new jersey, which most people never heard of, and i never did until i did research on thi
>> you mentioned that the boston tea party spread south to new york and to other cities. almost sounds as though were the network of people who were having the same thought or inspired one way or the another or working together. i never thought of the boston tea party as being that, but is that really -- >> yes. sam adams set up because there was no other form of communication, set up a series of committees of correspondence in every major city in the country. they started...
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york. i had one, and the other person who had won was an person. she was supposed to be writing a book on the classics, and i was supposed to be writing a book about plagiarism. and she was actually in her room writing poems and i was trying to become a novelist. so we weren't very good novelist for the money that they expended on us. [laughter] we were grateful for them. i am very pleased to have been invited here this afternoon. i confess that i owe some miscellaneous deaths as an author and a reader. most of them are cautionary, i guess. which is presumptuous to begin with. a few of them may be cranky. and i suppose all of them, and their weight, are of nostalgia, without trying to be trusted to the past. my father was holding loves overhears 14 years old in 1920. he had to go to work after the death of his father. it was 50 years after that in 1978 that had my first article accepted for publication. i was so excited that i sent him a copy. this man left school at 14, and again, this is
york. i had one, and the other person who had won was an person. she was supposed to be writing a book on the classics, and i was supposed to be writing a book about plagiarism. and she was actually in her room writing poems and i was trying to become a novelist. so we weren't very good novelist for the money that they expended on us. [laughter] we were grateful for them. i am very pleased to have been invited here this afternoon. i confess that i owe some miscellaneous deaths as an author and...
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>> guest: that is his funeral service back in new york. the body was sent back to new york. and in april of 1913, the funeral was held at st. george's church in manhattan, and then the burial took place in hartford, connecticut, where he was born and he was buried near his father and mother. c-span: you talk about the will. who got the money? >> guest: everything was left to his son, and when his father died in 1890, the father--the tradition in this family was very patriarchal. his father, junius, left several million--you know, a few million dollars each to his daughters. his wife--junius' wife had predeceased him, and junius left everything else to pierpont, the bank, the houses, whatever art collections junius had. and pierpont did exactly the same thing. he gave $3 million each to his daughters. his wife got the houses and a trust fund that had been set up by pierpont's own father and additional money from pierpont. but everything else was left to his son. and his will was--it opened with a resounding declaration of his episcopal faith that christ had died for his sins.
>> guest: that is his funeral service back in new york. the body was sent back to new york. and in april of 1913, the funeral was held at st. george's church in manhattan, and then the burial took place in hartford, connecticut, where he was born and he was buried near his father and mother. c-span: you talk about the will. who got the money? >> guest: everything was left to his son, and when his father died in 1890, the father--the tradition in this family was very patriarchal. his...
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i don't know if any of you grew up in new york or listened to don imus. he had a kennedy impersonator and sounded just like this and so i listened to the message and after listening to it the second or third time i realized it wasn't an impersonator, it was the senator asking me to come to washington to talk to him about doing a biography of his father. i went to washington and the senator and i and his two dogs have lunch together on monday since the dogs came to the senate with him because the senate wasn't in session and they could of rome and play. was a weird sight, believe me. we were brought into the tiny little conference room, the two dogs, the senator and me with a card table in the middle, and the senator who was always on a diet. he would feel better the center he was head the biggest sand which i'd ever seen like a sliver of tuna fish that looked as old as he was and on a piece of bread. i had two pieces of bread and potato chips and we talked for three or four hours. and what i remember saying over and over and over again is you don't want m
i don't know if any of you grew up in new york or listened to don imus. he had a kennedy impersonator and sounded just like this and so i listened to the message and after listening to it the second or third time i realized it wasn't an impersonator, it was the senator asking me to come to washington to talk to him about doing a biography of his father. i went to washington and the senator and i and his two dogs have lunch together on monday since the dogs came to the senate with him because...
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matthew davis, an office seeker from new york goes to monticello to fit in the city even now, travels to lobby for the job, he was a burr loyalist. jefferson, not so much a loyalist as we know. i should quickly add one of these i say to my hamiltonian friends is at least my guy didn't get shot in jersey. [laughter] among the founders to have sent e-mails is alexander hamilton what thomas jefferson and one to get on the record and then move on if he's sitting there pleading his case and jefferson is looking sort of blow seng in that vaguely charming we had. he's not like fdr that you can leave. anyone that left his company thought he agreed with them. it's to get for the moment and not such a great way to get through the day as it turns out to he is my contact with davis and goes, grabs the fly it begins pulling apart. davis begins to realize that man of for quite as well as he hoped. a second story. there you have the man that can snap a fly, pulled apart and ferociously focused when he needs to be to read often making you thinking he is not focused. he traveled through. it was a coup
matthew davis, an office seeker from new york goes to monticello to fit in the city even now, travels to lobby for the job, he was a burr loyalist. jefferson, not so much a loyalist as we know. i should quickly add one of these i say to my hamiltonian friends is at least my guy didn't get shot in jersey. [laughter] among the founders to have sent e-mails is alexander hamilton what thomas jefferson and one to get on the record and then move on if he's sitting there pleading his case and...
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he concentrated in north country new york and chicago, westchester and albany. he was not yet where he wanted to be. he committed much from roosevelt and was looking to him. roosevelt named 10 the first ambassador, the first irish catholic ambassador. he became the ambassador to great britain and it is one of the worst decisions roosevelt ever made. he knew, but somehow believed he could keep kennedy in check, but he couldn't. he couldn't. kennedy was too men. he tucked his children. he was a cheerleader, he was an optimist, but in his relationship to the world around him and to the 20 century, having made his pilot money, he was convinced that he was going to be taken from him. he was convinced that democracy and capitalism would be taken from the united states if the united states entered the war, after world war ii in behalf of the british. nothing was more important to him than making sure that there was no war. keeping britain out of the were first meant keeping the united states out of the war. he did everything he possibly could. he violated protocol. he
he concentrated in north country new york and chicago, westchester and albany. he was not yet where he wanted to be. he committed much from roosevelt and was looking to him. roosevelt named 10 the first ambassador, the first irish catholic ambassador. he became the ambassador to great britain and it is one of the worst decisions roosevelt ever made. he knew, but somehow believed he could keep kennedy in check, but he couldn't. he couldn't. kennedy was too men. he tucked his children. he was a...
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i participated just in a conversation -- i contributed to a conference at the united nations in new york, one of these peace conferences, dialogue of cultures, dialogue of religions and so on and so forth. shortly after the film was made by some boys in the united states, and this, of course, again -- yet again, led to killingings all over the world. everybody battening down their hatches. and the question i ask myself, and again the sort of question we ask, what contributed to this? why is it that any one religion considers that it is so sack mikhail saakashvili crow sank, it conclude cannot be commented on in sing, any publication is in the public domain and is subject to public commentary, and for any religion to claim sanctity, it's a continuation of this same mentality that denigrated other religions in their time, but now has assumed universal and diabolical proportions. some borished do it for in denmark splashes the images of the prophet muhammad, and somebody in nye -- nigeria, this kind of -- this level of intolerance has become -- seems to have become accentable... acceptable.
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mark and i talked about getting married, say, in new york, where i'm from or another state just to, but there are complications in terms of depending on what said you then end up living in. >> host: i understand, but it's not legal where you live. the question is in places like canada or netherlands, you know, for a number of years now, and no more than 10% of people enter legal unions. >> guest: i think that's partly because in many cases, couples have already cobbled together certain limited legal structures to the extent that they can. mark and i have a big expensive binder at home, and people have done that. there's questions about how all of that get affected. i think that's partly because, as you know, given your work over the last several decades, a marriage culture takes time to build, and, you know, when i startedded working on this issue back in the early -- when i started working on gay rights issues back in the early 1990s, marriage was not on the radar. it was not until the mid-90s with hawaii that we talked about it in a serious way, and my friend, you know him well, evan
mark and i talked about getting married, say, in new york, where i'm from or another state just to, but there are complications in terms of depending on what said you then end up living in. >> host: i understand, but it's not legal where you live. the question is in places like canada or netherlands, you know, for a number of years now, and no more than 10% of people enter legal unions. >> guest: i think that's partly because in many cases, couples have already cobbled together...
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york, saying quote, the pfizer team is going to be a purifying conflagration one day, unquote. his prophecy would come true only 20 years later at a cost of millions. fairly easy for governments to manipulate public health, medicines and doctors for purposes of quote family planning. this soon led into policies about colonial possessions and citizenship. peoples of egypt, india, algeria and africa clearly did not fit the progress is a view of educated elite. and by their definitions, were close to quote life unworthy of life, unquote. but these trends would marinate for a decade. in the meantime, american prosperity continued spreading to the rest of the civilized world. american advertisers, film, even literature became highly desired in europe. it's another irony of this time, american movies followed a production code that emphasized universal american themes of patriotism. god, fair play, and they avoided sensationalism, sexual situations and other taboo vices. american movies sold american exceptionalism, including quote puritanical moralism as one observer put it. they oc
york, saying quote, the pfizer team is going to be a purifying conflagration one day, unquote. his prophecy would come true only 20 years later at a cost of millions. fairly easy for governments to manipulate public health, medicines and doctors for purposes of quote family planning. this soon led into policies about colonial possessions and citizenship. peoples of egypt, india, algeria and africa clearly did not fit the progress is a view of educated elite. and by their definitions, were close...
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i got an advance from a new york publisher to write a book. it was, you know, a dream come true. and in mexico city by november of 1997 i had crossed the deadline, and i didn't have a word written. and i was broke. and i called the only friend that i could count on that, at that point because my lifestyle had led me to destroy a lot of my personal relationships. i called a performance artist from costa rica everybody has a one of the first things i saw. i found myself driven to go further and further out. we were in the village of joshua tree which is right on the edge of a beautiful national park. if you've ever been there, you know u2's album at least. well, i wanted to go further out. there is something existential that was driving me further and further out into the nothing, the big empty as they say about the desert. and also because the further out you went, the rents got cheaper and cheaper and cheaper. so i was paying $275 a month for a two-bedroom house with five acres of land on the edge of 29 palms, um, right where that sign said next -- [inaudible] 29 miles. and that'
i got an advance from a new york publisher to write a book. it was, you know, a dream come true. and in mexico city by november of 1997 i had crossed the deadline, and i didn't have a word written. and i was broke. and i called the only friend that i could count on that, at that point because my lifestyle had led me to destroy a lot of my personal relationships. i called a performance artist from costa rica everybody has a one of the first things i saw. i found myself driven to go further and...
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they're separatists among federalists in new england and new york to succeed from the union and let the south do whatever it wants to do. that would've been a betrayal. by then, 500,000 slaves with no hope of freedom. he i think would've called those extremists don't, but more important he had the year of the moderate federalists, like those on the supreme court, especially john marshall who was although a virginian, oppose slavery and wanted to work to end slavery. then i wanted to work to end slavery. patrick honey, who is an anti-federalist in our two republican to the left wanted to work and was working with quaker leaders to try to find some solution to the slavery problem. so i think with so many come he could have united the people with goodwill to address this problem, whereas jackson polarize the nation and is the beginning of polarization that would never end to the civil war. >> one more question to me and this is a reverse time travel question. if we could bring john quincy adams to our day, what do you think you would like and not like about america in 2012? >> he would des
they're separatists among federalists in new england and new york to succeed from the union and let the south do whatever it wants to do. that would've been a betrayal. by then, 500,000 slaves with no hope of freedom. he i think would've called those extremists don't, but more important he had the year of the moderate federalists, like those on the supreme court, especially john marshall who was although a virginian, oppose slavery and wanted to work to end slavery. then i wanted to work to end...
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there were separatists among the federalists in new england and new york a wanted to secede from the union and let the south do whatever it wants to do. well, that would have been a de trail by the 500,000 slaves with no hope of freedom. i feel that he would calmed those extremists down but he had the ear of the moderate federalists like those on the supreme court especially john marshall who was opposing slavery and wanted to work to end slavery. monroe wanted to work to end slavery. patrick henry, who was an antifederalist republican to the left wanted to work and was working with quaker leaders to find a solution to this problem. so i think he could have united the people of goodwill to address this problem whereas that polarized the nation and was the beginning of polarization that would never end until the civil war. >> this is reversed time travel, if we could bring john quincy adams to our day, what do you think he would like and not like america in 2012? >> he would despise our involvement overseas to dictate to other societies the kind of societies they have to have. when he
there were separatists among the federalists in new england and new york a wanted to secede from the union and let the south do whatever it wants to do. well, that would have been a de trail by the 500,000 slaves with no hope of freedom. i feel that he would calmed those extremists down but he had the ear of the moderate federalists like those on the supreme court especially john marshall who was opposing slavery and wanted to work to end slavery. monroe wanted to work to end slavery. patrick...
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york times has done two pieces, and it was serialized in the new york times magazine, given front coverage in a book review in january, and it's been in other papers as well. the subject of editorials all over the country--is that reagan critics are interested in the evidence and that there's a way in which, in this information age, real evidence still matters. had he done this on a computer, it wouldn't have worked. we wouldn't have been able to--to do this book with the--the kind of authenticity that we've been able to do it. but i think the fact that we've produced reagan in his own hand, with his own drafts, not trying to protect him in any way, clean up the material--some people said, 'don't present drafts. you'll see the spelling errors and you--his strikeouts, things he didn't intend to--to put on the air. you shouldn't do that--his notes in the margins.' the fact that we did that, i think, has brought a lot of reagan critics into saying, 'no, we don't agree with his views on all of these issues, but the fact that he was working through them, that he was reading sources widely and t
york times has done two pieces, and it was serialized in the new york times magazine, given front coverage in a book review in january, and it's been in other papers as well. the subject of editorials all over the country--is that reagan critics are interested in the evidence and that there's a way in which, in this information age, real evidence still matters. had he done this on a computer, it wouldn't have worked. we wouldn't have been able to--to do this book with the--the kind of...
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people in new york need different rules than people in new york city, then people in montana or texas probably. they are best able to decide what kinds of rules they should have. unfortunately in a lot of states, the gun lobby has made it impossible for local jurisdictions to make their own rules. >> host: the state preempts it. >> guest: how does a legislator sitting in the capitol -- >> host: the state legislature said no, we can't have local laws. >> guest: at some thinking. is hysteria that produces laws like that. it's not clear thinking about what the problem we have is and how we can intelligently deal with it. post i want to touch briefly, and i don't think it got into it too much in the book but the court cases both the heller case and the mcdonald case talk about guns in the home for self-defense. when you talk about concealed carry you are talking about taking the gun to public and and a lot of states there are pushes after the shooting in virginia tech that we should have tons in a classroom or we should have guns in more places. where does that'll go? >> guest: the argume
people in new york need different rules than people in new york city, then people in montana or texas probably. they are best able to decide what kinds of rules they should have. unfortunately in a lot of states, the gun lobby has made it impossible for local jurisdictions to make their own rules. >> host: the state preempts it. >> guest: how does a legislator sitting in the capitol -- >> host: the state legislature said no, we can't have local laws. >> guest: at some...
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people in new york the different worlds and people in new york city, then people in montana or texas probably. they are best able to decide what kind of roles they should have. unfortunately the latter state, the gun lobby has made it possible, impossible for local jurisdictions to make their own rules. how did the state legislatures said in the capital of this day. posted the state legislatures said you couldn't have any laws. >> guest: that's outrageous and defend linking. if hysteria that produces bauxite. it is not clear thinking about the problem we have and how we can intelligently deal with it. >> host: to touch briefly and i don't think you've got into it too much of the book, but the court case talk about the gun in the home for self-defense. when you get to conceal to carry, we talk about taking a gun into the public view and in a lot of states there's precious after a shooting at virginia tech we should have guns in the classroom for guns in more places. where is that outgoing about makes sense? >> guest: you hear that after every large-scale mass shooting. armed people ca
people in new york the different worlds and people in new york city, then people in montana or texas probably. they are best able to decide what kind of roles they should have. unfortunately the latter state, the gun lobby has made it possible, impossible for local jurisdictions to make their own rules. how did the state legislatures said in the capital of this day. posted the state legislatures said you couldn't have any laws. >> guest: that's outrageous and defend linking. if hysteria...
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york need different rules than people in new york city i mean -- than people in montana, or t guas, pr a i ly. th wrly ae best able to decide t kind of rules they should have. ofortunately in a lt states, the gun l a gu has made it possible for -- impossible for local jurisdictions to make their oins rules. how e, os the state legislagun sitting in the capitol of the state -- ingotst: have rules gt off guns in city parunf and the state legislature said you can't have that law. >> guest: itt pto dnthialiing. itt p hysteria that produces lls like that. it's not clear thinking about what the problem we hs. ie is and how we can intelligently deal with it. >> host: i want to touch briefly on -- i don't think you hs. ie gt into it too mtigh with the book but the court cases talk about guns basically in the home for sejus-defense. when we get to concealed carruy, wely ae talking about taking the gun out into the public view, of states they're ing ates after a shot virginia tech, we should have guns in the classroom, or guns in more places. where is that all gt cng and wht makes sense to yo
york need different rules than people in new york city i mean -- than people in montana, or t guas, pr a i ly. th wrly ae best able to decide t kind of rules they should have. ofortunately in a lt states, the gun l a gu has made it possible for -- impossible for local jurisdictions to make their oins rules. how e, os the state legislagun sitting in the capitol of the state -- ingotst: have rules gt off guns in city parunf and the state legislature said you can't have that law. >> guest:...
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there's a quote -- i read an editorial in the "new york times" a couple weeks ago, and it had to do with morality's ability to behind -- bind and blind, and, you know, it binds people, you believe in, you know, you believe in whatever you believe in, abortion one way or the other or whatever you believe about entitlements or whatever you believe about global warming, but you're incapable of seeing the other side at all, that there might be any validity outside. you take that into congress, and if both sides just sit there, they won't bend or see the other side's point of view, nothing happens. the anger that comes out of that, i mean, a lot of people are just running around so angry because they just have to -- well, this is what i think. this is -- there's no other way other than my way. >> it's funny, i think reading, particularly reading about other people's lives -- >> absolutely. >> creating tolerance as well. >> absolutely, absolutely. that's the great thing about books right now more than any other medium that we have. a television -- a television's getting better, interestingly,
there's a quote -- i read an editorial in the "new york times" a couple weeks ago, and it had to do with morality's ability to behind -- bind and blind, and, you know, it binds people, you believe in, you know, you believe in whatever you believe in, abortion one way or the other or whatever you believe about entitlements or whatever you believe about global warming, but you're incapable of seeing the other side at all, that there might be any validity outside. you take that into...